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Impact Mapping: Focusing on Business Value in Agile Development

COURSE TYPE

Foundation

Course Number

3654

Duration

1 Day

Impact mapping is a strategic, collaborative planning technique that, through visualization, surfaces the hidden assumptions, interpretations and intentions that often derail a product development effort. By focussing first on required business outcomes and then drilling down to deliverables, impact maps provide a focus for informed discussion and decision-making about which products/projects/features to prioritize. Impact maps facilitate collaboration between senior decision-makers in the business, customers and technical developers; support definition of fitness-for-purpose through identifying required changes in actors’ behavior, together with the metrics to measure them; help manage road-maps by focusing on business outcomes rather than pre-set scope limits. In this course you learn how to create, as well as use, impact maps.

You Will Learn How To:

Distinguish between outcomes and outputs

Discoverer real, not assumed, business goals

Identify actor types and the changed behaviors that are needed to meet the goal

Relate user stories to impact maps in an Agile development environment

Define and use appropriate measurements

Draw effective impact maps

Use your impact map to identify key priorities

Important Course Information

Who Will Benefit:

While Product Owners, Product Managers and Business Analysts will benefit most from this course, it is also useful for Scrum Masters, Agile coaches and Agile Development team members such as programmers and testers

Course Outline

Anatomy of an impact map

Goal

Actors

Impacts

Deliverables

Impact maps and Agile development

Adaptive planning driven by business value

Incremental and iterative development

User stories and impact maps

Creating impact maps

Preparing the impact map

Discovering goals

Defining measures

Planning milestones

Drawing impact maps

Drawing the skeleton impact map

Finding alternatives

Identifying key priorities

Outcomes: earn and/or learn

The practice of impact mapping

The impact mapping workshop

Facilitating impact mapping

Communicating impact maps and their meaning

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